Obituary for Kate Elizabeth Powers, Henry, Alabama

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January 2004

THE COLUMBIA RECORDER
DECEMBER 11, 189O
Obituary of Kate Elizabeth Powers

A veil of unalterable sadness enveloped our fair town last Saturday, 
penetrating many hearts and causing grief which it were vain to attempt to 
banish. The death angel who has been hovering near for many months has descended 
and with his remorseless scythe, cut down one of Columbia's fairest and sweetest 
flowers, Miss Kate Powers. While just emerging from maidenhood to womanhood, with 
life with its beauty stretched before her in a glistening panorama filled with 
the golden nectar which youth alone can impart, felt disease which spares not 
one, laid hold of this loved young lady with a relentless clasp and now in 
a few months, God calls her soul, saying "I love thee, I love thee, pass under 
the rod". Under the existing circumstances it seems doubly hard to the sorrowing 
ones to yield their claim, but Christ, who guides this dear spirit through the 
gloom and conveys it to a better and fairer land, will comfort these left behind, 
in this their darkest hour.

     O! Ye weary ones and sad ones-
        Droop not, faint not, by the way;
     Ye shall join the loved and lost ones
        In the last of perfect day.

In addition to many fond relatives whose hearts are saddened by this event, 
a host of friends and associates, male and female, those of her childhood days 
and those who have stayed by her in later years, witnesses of her pure and sweet  
life, these are likewise burdened with grief, at the thought that she whom we 
have all loved has gone from us forever. But though she has passed deaths 
gloomy river her sweet face will yet live in our memory and in our love will 
live forever.  The burial service was conducted Sunday afternoon by Rev. Mr. Culbreath 
in the presence of a large body of friends and relatives. To all, the dear ones 
stricken with grief by this untimely departure, we offer the deepest sympathy and 
may this beloved daughter and sister prove a ministering angel to guide them into Paradise.